Sustainable development is easy to talk about but hard to accomplish. The author proposes an ambitious agenda to alleviate poverty in the world while also maintaining the sustainability of the planet's climate and economic growth. He introduces to many readers the concept of frugal inventions to...

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are on an ambitious path towards green economic transformation. In this paper we identified the target as high level of Human Development Index (HDI) within the planetary capacity of One Earth. All the GCC countries have already achieved high levels of...

This article draws from a study that investigates the link between development, economic growth and the economic losses from natural hazards. Increasing investments in disaster risk reduction have led to a significant reduction in human casualties, but economic losses from natural disasters have...

This research explores the historical roots and persistent effects of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. Exploiting a novel ethnic-level dataset, which combines geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and genetic data, it advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that population...